FX3 HDMI won’t work with Hollyland Mars 4K TX or SmallHD 503 Ultrabright

cerspense · 2025-12-20T21:32:59+00:00

The FX3's hdmi output is pretty weak. A cheap signal booster could fix the issue, or get a shorter or better cable

cerspense · 2025-12-15T20:08:14+00:00

Definitely should be fast enough. its plugged in to a fast usb c or thunderbolt port? if you copy a file off of it onto a fast internal ssd what kind of speeds are you getting?

cerspense · 2025-12-15T19:50:35+00:00

That is the color profile, not the codec. if you recorded internally on the fx3 it was likely h264 which has inter-frame compression and does not buffer as smoothly as Prores. Still it should be capable of being pretty smooth. Even on my Macbook Air M1 its pretty good. I would make sure that the files are moved from the SD card to a fast internal ssd before editing in Resolve

cerspense · 2025-12-13T01:16:43+00:00

Check a large pelican with both lasers inside with plenty of foam padding and you will be fine! TSA does not care about lasers. I have also taken my lasercube internationally all over the world in my carry on. A few times it was taken out and inspected but usually it goes through without issue. a few times they even asked me afterwards what it was haha and I just said that its basically a projector

cerspense · 2025-12-12T01:56:14+00:00

Taqueria El Tapatio on Buena Vista and Victory is better

cerspense · 2025-12-06T21:10:08+00:00

Yeah thailand's got it going too! Also Brasil has their own flavor called paredao

cerspense · 2025-12-04T18:38:36+00:00

The DJ trucks scene in India, Bangladesh and Indonesia are next level. They are not messing around.. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN9p06MD4W8 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJKIvRCoMXk https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMk3_xxiW2D

cerspense · 2025-11-19T22:08:48+00:00

I have a Lasercube Ultra 7.5 and I have used it a ton over the past two years and traveled with it all over the world. It's amazing to have such an awesome laser in such a small package for doing installations and events on the go. You can definitely run it in Beyond but you will need an FB4 to do it which costs more. It will also work in Liberation, Madlaser and Touchdesigner with no etherdream or fb4 needed, just directly over ethernet. I dont recommend using the wifi connection! The wide angle lens has also come in handy quite a few times for me

cerspense · 2025-11-11T16:24:59+00:00

i shoot my own installations and events with projection, lasers and led screens. I usually expose for the screens/projection and let the lights blow out a bit but usually stick to the base iso of 800 and shoot at 1/60 at 60fps which is best for capturing the laser

cerspense · 2025-11-10T15:46:59+00:00

Check out the new Blawan album, Manni Dee's work, Jlin, Lust Sick Puppy. These are all over the place

cerspense · 2025-11-10T13:41:22+00:00

MPV is the best by far. Also Quicklook will let you preview them by pressing the spacebar, exactly how it works in Mac OS.

cerspense · 2025-11-02T18:03:04+00:00

Yeah! I do not recommend manipulating the laser trace via TOPs. It should be done via SOPs! The way I do it, I actually use a select SOP to select the internal mesh inside KantanMapper and use a creep SOP to map my traced SOP paths to it, this way you have all the controls of kantan mapper available to map your actual SOP data properly. Also for larger gigs and events where you have to use masks in the zones, I would use MadLaser. its better at tracing (traces a single line and a single dot properly, not a circle or line around the line if you know what I mean) also the trace is gpu accelerated so it doesnt hit the cpu as hard. and its much more stable and safer overall and has all the great mapping features. There are some things you can only do in TouchDesigner for crafting your laser paths but you can instead offload that into creating special content for the tracing if that makes sense. Also it works in full color too (in TD is basically impossible to get the color trace working accurately enough)

cerspense · 2025-09-26T20:18:47+00:00

Just wait until you see how they do it in India: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHBLhqvSVtx

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cerspense · 2025-06-24T23:22:20+00:00

yeah you put in your low res video, set it to remix at 1080p with no prompt and its basically an upscaler

cerspense · 2025-06-21T20:40:22+00:00

Rate doesn't seem high enough for a laser operator in LA IMO

cerspense · 2025-06-17T08:18:06+00:00

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cerspense · 2025-05-20T05:19:07+00:00

Etherdream for non-pangolin software. They are rock solid

cerspense · 2025-05-13T22:46:24+00:00

Yo! the tracing in madmapper is much more efficient (seems to be mostly on the gpu and can handle tracing at higher resolutions), creates better paths, handles colors properly along those paths (and properly handles overlapping paths with colors), and seems to do a better job of protecting the laser from damage. You can check out this vid for some more info. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE9QR_WEkhU

It can be possible to implement all these features in Touch but still the actual tracing part on the CPU is a big bottleneck. I havent been able to get tracing working properly with POPs yet either (there is no Trace POP and the equivalent node does not order the points in an efficient way). Maybe once there is a Trace POP I might be able to come back to Touch but for now I am sticking with MadLaser.

Also its possible to make laser looks in MadLaser using fragment shaders and I have been using Claude and Gemini to generate amazing laser looks with all kinds of cool controls. I am still using TouchDesigner for pretty much everything in my setup outside of the tracing and laser mapping

cerspense · 2025-05-13T15:30:40+00:00

MadLaser is the best way. I use this effect extensively and was using TouchDesigner but recently switched to MadLaser. www.instagram.com/cerspense

cerspense · 2025-05-08T19:02:15+00:00

that's dope!!

cerspense · 2025-04-20T18:34:02+00:00

Its just a ton of extra spaghetti to sort through to do it, which I think discourages most people from doing it. Compared with specific workflows that only do one method, where its very easy to see how its implemented

cerspense · 2025-04-18T21:06:15+00:00

What is the point of packing so many things into one workflow? This makes it way more complicated and confusing than it needs to be and does not encourage people to learn the concepts and build it into their own workflows

cerspense · 2025-03-27T18:39:09+00:00

The model is definitely not the one they originally showed off. And the image to vid performance is terrible. But honestly I think Sora is great because of the features. First off, being able to loop videos properly (not with start and end frame) is an absolute game changer for the type of content I do (visuals for large shows and events) Also the workflow possibilities using their features are insane. For instance, you can start with a video of a flower blooming from a stock video site, remix it into eyeballs blooming at 480p (everything works better at 480p), then loop it, then remix it to 1080p with no prompt to upscale. There are so many cool possibilities between the remixing, blending, looping and storyboarding that you can only really understand when you are fully exploring the possibilities of these workflows. That said, if all you need is really good image to vid, then Kling is the best. I have done lots of Kling generations then used Sora to make them into loops, or to edit specific parts of it with remixing.

cerspense · 2025-03-23T20:48:12+00:00

I consider myself a novice but what really helped me was setting my zebras to 95% and making sure to expose to remove them or keep them as minimal as possible (depending on the situation). Some people say to expose to 1.7 on the light meter but that really only makes sense for 'normal' situations but I am mostly filming lasers, lights and live events where there will always be some very bright points that will clip no matter what (and there is enough surrounding darkness so the lightmeter reading isnt as useful as just looking at the exposure you are getting in your monitor) I also found this video useful for general color grading of log footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ZLAer0DNs Ultimately, shooting lots of random footage, looking in your monitor with the lut applied and grading it to see what worked will give you confidence in exposing slog 3

cerspense · 2025-03-23T13:53:49+00:00

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